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So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. -- Robert Sternberg
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. -- Sloane Crosley
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. -- Andrew Greeley
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. -- Ann Bancroft
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. -- Christopher Eccleston
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. -- Ron White
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability. -- John H. Johnson
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability. -- Jason Alexander
I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability. -- Jason Alexander
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities. -- Roger Goodell
I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . . -- Loretta Young
I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help. -- Bruce Jenner
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills. -- Willard Wigan
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability. -- Henry Winkler
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities. -- Chuck Close
People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability. -- Randy Wayne
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place. -- Chuck Close
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well! -- Patricia Polacco
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in. -- Channing Tatum
It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me. -- Nalo Hopkinson
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur. -- Darell Hammond
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word, -- Laura Linney
I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes. -- Scoot McNairy

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